Heating-kettle.



W. H. GAILOR.

HEATING KETTLE.

APPLICATION FILED 11011.1, 1911.

1,086,91 1 Patented Feb. 10, 1914.

COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH cm, WASHINGTON, I:v c.

WILLIAM HENRY GAILOR, OF SARATOGA SPRINGS, NEW YORK.

HEATING-KETTLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 10,1914.

Application filed November 1, 1911. Serial No. 657,926.

T 0 (ZZZ whom. it may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. GAILOR, a citizen of the United States, residing at Saratoga Springs, in the county of Sara toga and State of New York, have invented an Improvement in Heating-Kettles, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to aportable heating kettle adapted to hold oil or bituminous material, such as asphalt, to be heated for application to roads in road building and repairs to the same, and also for other uses where oil or asphalt are required, with the object of providing a handy device for limited use.

In carrying out my invention I employ a cylindrical fire box or body with an inverted bottom plate and door and means for permitting the regulatable escape of the products of combustion, and in combination therewith I employ a tapering barrel having a bottom plate, a removable dishing top or cover, means for holding the top in place and means in the case of oil for drawing off the heated oil from the barrel, all of which is hereinafter more fully described.

In the drawing, Figure 1 is an elevation and partial vertical section through the device of my improvement. Fig. 2 is a plan of the same. Fig. 3 a sectional plan at the dotted line a: a: of Fig. 1, and Fig. 4 a sectional plan at the dotted line 3 y of Fig. 1.

Similar letters and numerals of reference indicate similar parts.

a represents a cylindrical fire box or body advantageously with parallel sides formed of heavy sheet iron, open at the upper end and at the lower end provided with a bottom plate riveted thereto, also with a door 0 just above the bottom plate through which materials for forming a fire are placed. At the upper open end I preferably employ a top strengthening band (i of heavy iron, and surrounding the cylindrical fire box or body just below the plane of this band I provide openings 2 for the discharge of the products of combustion within the fire box or body, and surrounding these openings and also provided with equally spaced openings I preferably employ a movable band 6 supported upon brackets 6 and by which the same may be turned to bring the openings in the cylindrical fire box or body and the equally spaced openings in the band 6 more or less into co-incidence or entirely out of position for closing off the openings. As

many brackets G are employed in the circumference of the fire box or body as may seem necessary, only one having been shown in Fig. 1. In combination with these parts I employ a tapering, cylindrical barrel f, also of heavy sheet metal such as iron, with a bottom plate 3 riveted to the cylindrical portion f at the lower end, and I provide a removable dishing top or cover f adapted to set into the upper open end. At the upper open end of the tapering barrel I provide an iron ring preferably formed in the circumference with olfset portions between which and the chines of the barrel offset parts or slots 4 are formed. This iron ring 9 at the chilies of the barrel, is shown on the drawing as a flat band, but it may be of other form in cross-section, such as half-round, L shape or otherwise, without in any sense departing from the spirit of my invention.

I have shown in Figs. 1 and 2, and prefer to employ the clip hooks 5 which occupy a position in the slots at 4 so that when the dishing cover is in position the upper ends of these hooks may be bent over the chines of the barrel and down against the inner surface of the dishing part of the cover so as to hold the cover in position. These hooks 5 are readily replaced when broken, with the probability of being broken and replaced each time the dishing cover is removed from the barrel.

For the purpose of road building and repairs to the same, the device of my invention may be employed for heating oil, asphalt, or other similar bituminous material suitable for road building and repairs. This material is placed in the tapering barrel 7 and the same is set into the open top of the fire box or body and is supported within the strengthening band (Z and the fire built in the cylindrical fire box or body a upon the bottom plate 6, which heats the same to the required extent, the fire being regulated and the products of combustion discharged through the openings 2.

In using the device it is preferable to employ a bed of gravel or sand and to set thereon the cylindrical fire box or body so that the gravel or sand fills in the recessed lower end of the cylindrical fire box or body and forms a non-conductor for the heat of the fire as between the same and any surface upon which the sand or gravel and device rests and are supported.

I have shown in the drawing an L shape coupling or plug it, fastened to the undersurface of the bottom plate 3, and securely fastened thereto and extending therefrom a pipe i terminating in a faucet 11 the pipe extending out through a slot 0 in the door 0 or in the body a. so that the faucet comes outside of the cylindrical fire box or body. This is useful in case of heated oil for delivering the same into a suitable receptacle as may be needed for repairs to a highway. \Vhere asphalt used the pipe 2' and faucet will be removed and dispensed with and the opening in the coupling h be closed by an ordinary plug, as in such case the asphalt is most advantageously dipped. by buckets from the tapering barrel.

In the device of my invention, the cylindrical fire box or body and parts connected therewith are movable as a unit and the tapering barrel and parts connected therewith as separable from the cylindrical fire box or body, are also movable as a unit; therefore, it is easy to replace either part without affecting the other part and to move and transport the parts as units without the weight of both parts, as would be the case if the parts were not capable of separation.

It is furthermore possible, in transportal tion, to nest the tapering barrels, and thus economlze room and transportation charges.

I preferably employ a tapering barrel of about the taper shown in the drawing,

strengthened at the smaller end by a flange at the bottom, and by a ring at the large open end. This form of barrel, when filled with asphalt material and first sized on the inner surface, can be turned over and the entire contents dumped out.

I claim as my invention:

in a heating kettle the combinationof an open top cylindrical fire box, a downwardly tapering barrel extending into the fire box lVILLIAM HENRY GAILOR.

lVitnes-ses LEON O. EMERY, M. C. BARTON.

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Washington, D. 0.?

Signed by me this th day of September 

